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Subject: Re: Tablebase kppkpp?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:22:58 02/09/06

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On February 09, 2006 at 16:43:15, Tony Werten wrote:

>On February 08, 2006 at 12:24:45, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On February 08, 2006 at 12:18:50, Emil Vlasak wrote:
>>
>>>Is there any possibility to access  kpp-kpp tablebase, on-line or via download?
>>>
>>>By the way, it is very frequent constellation.
>>>http://kd.lab.nig.ac.jp/chess/discussion-board/viewtopic.php?t=74  gives the
>>>following frequencies of 6 men:
>>>
>>>1 krppkr 27,902 14.029%
>>>2 krpkrp 25,779 12.962%
>>>3 kppkpp 19,150 9.629%
>>>4 kpppkp 8,474 4.261%
>>>....
>>
>>I imagine that nobody has built that one yet because you clearly must have all
>>of the tablebase files that live underneath (which is every onther one with each
>>and every 'p' replaced by 'r', 'n', 'b' and 'q' in every combination.)
>>
>>So that particular 6 man tablebase file is the hardest one of all to make.  I
>>also guess it will be stupendous in size.  Probably the largest 6 man table base
>>file.
>
>Don't think so. It only has at most 1806*24*48*23*46 entries. With 2 byte per
>entry, that's 4GB uncompressed.

My mistake.  I thought (for some reason) that tablebase files with pawns tended
to be larger than tablebase files with pieces.



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